Next-Gen Gaming At Its Most Hedonistic: Take a Noob’s Look at “The Division” Beta

As someone who hasn’t been a gamer in somewhere over a decade, I joined the next generation console community with two prime directives. First, I wanted to be able to come home and take out aggression, raining some long dormant vengeance down upon some sort of computer generated bad guys. Why? Because I work a job where I talk to people all day and, as a young, foul-mouthed Black man in America, I can’t run the risk of ever truly keeping it 100% with the unwashed public. The other reason is because I want to play games with other people (because the majority of my friends aren’t nerdy enough to want to play my nerdy ass card games), but I don’t actually want to have fellowship outside of the game because I’m a career introvert. So I bought a PS4 and, with it, Bungie’s massive multi-player online first-person shooter (MMOFPS), Destiny. Obviously, with the expansions, upgrades, and October’s “The Taken King” content, it’s a vastly different experience than what they started with, which is probably why fans cut the developers some slack on their lack of communication and why, allegedly, Bungie has no idea where to go next. However, it seems Ubisoft has been paying close attention to Bungie’s sins and implementing their own solutions; it was only a week or so ago that they decided to reveal more of the ace up their sleeve, Tom Clancy’s The Division via playable beta. The online shooter takes place in a post-pandemic New York City, ravaged by a Black Friday virus, and you are an a…